Web 2.0 Tool: Game classroom
The tool:
Game Classroom is a web 2.0 tool that provides educational games for grades kindergarten through sixth grade for all subjects. Game Classroom is very easy to access. All you have to do it go to http://www.gameclassroom.com/ and click on the grade that you are interested in. GC (Game Classroom) is very interactive where all three parties (teacher, parent, and student) are a major role in successfully providing the student with help in any. What I love about GC is that is it completely free!
The lessons that are available for your use provides the skill, goal, skill description, sample problems, learning tips, online resources, extra help problems and related games all in one page. The figure bellows shows an example. This saves a lot of time for educators by just looking at the skill description to see if the games are appropriate for your students. What sold me onto this web 2.0 tool is that it has practice that the students can do at home.
Kindergarten is a challenging level of students to jump on the computer without providing them with help. I would feel comfortable about setting up the computers with the game already up on their screen so that all they had to do is click and play the game. Most of the games provide a follow up to either at home or whenever they get off the computer. I am a type of educator that always provide follow ups on independent work. I would defiantly like to use many of these games during their center time.
I agree with you Jodi, I played on this site for a while and found some great games for my classroom and it's difficult to find 6th grade language arts games. Great choice!
ReplyDeleteJodi~ Thanks for finding these great new sites! I will definitely need to check them out! I had heard of TeacherTube before, but need to explore it on my own, and I'm anxious to see if there are any music related games on the Game Classroom site!
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